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New ‘panic button’ app will allow civilians to alert authorities about rocket strikes

November 19, 2014

Growing security fears prompted the Israeli military to propose expanding the use of a “panic button” smartphone app that it is introducing next year to allow civilians to alert authorities about rocket strikes in wartime. “The app could also include alerts for bombings, terrorist infiltrations and abductions,” the project manager, Lieutenant-Colonel Levi Itach of Homefront Command, told Reuters. Police would receive incident coordinates automatically, and by not requiring users to speak, the app would allow them to hide from would-be assailants.